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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-07
RAILWAY HORROR
The Crowded Montreal Express
Takes an Awfal Plunge
THROUGH The WOODSTOCK BRIDGE,

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, February s.
The night express trim for Montreal,
which left here at S:15 o'clock last night,
ran off the bridge at Woodstock, VT, two
miles north of White River junction,
about l o'clock this morning, and the
sleeping and passenger cars and bridge
were entirely burned. The exact number
of killed aed wounded has not been
learned. Some place the number at six
teen killed, while others say thirty or
forty lost their lives, and that a large
number were injured.
The train consisted of one sleeping car
and a passenger coach from here; one
Chicago sleeping car, connected Mt White
River junction; one Boston sleeping car,
one mail car from Boston, and other pas
senger coach, one baggage and one express
ear.
LATER PARTICULARS.
1920 A. M.-The accident to the Mon
treal Express at Woodstock bridge, assumes
frightful proportions rs further particulars
are learned. The train was the Boston
and Montreal Express on the Vermont Cen
trail Railroad, with connections at White
River SunctiOn with the Montreal Express
from Springfield, one sleeping car and II
passenger coach from which are attached
to the Boston and Montreal train. Con
ductOr Sturtevant was fatally burned, and
Frank WessOn, son OF ID. l.. WeSSOn, Of
this city, of the firm Of Smith Il WeSsOn,
pistol manufacturers, was killed, and
TEN BODIES TAKEN OUT.
The train was running ut a high rate of
speed when il ran Of the bridge. The
Shrieks and grOans of the injured and
dying were h~cartrending in the extreme.
The widest excitement prevails. 1t Is
impossible ut this writing To give the num-
Der of dead. Already ten bodies have
been taken from the wreck, and it is known
that thirty persons were injured. PhySi-
clans have been SenttO the scene and every
thing is being done for the care OF the
injured.
FATAL DELAY.
Frank l.. WcSSOn, who was killed, was
about - years of age, and leaves Il wife
and four children. lie married the daugh-
ter Ot John Lowell, OF Montreal, and was Il
brOthcr-in-law of John w. Lowell, the
New York publisher. lie intended to
for Montreal yesterday morning by
the Day Express, but there being no par
Tor eur attached to the train he deferred
his departure until S:l5 last night, taking
the sleeping car through to Montreal. He
WIS accompanied by his s~iSter-in-law, Miss
Lowell, who was returning to her home in
Montreal. 1t is understood she Wa not
SeriOrSly injured.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-07

B., G. 4 q. RAILROAD.
Leave Bellsire At SD p. m. for WOOdSield and
SlnnmCTteld.
Leave BellsiTe ri eco p. III. for GAINESVILLE and
intermediate points.
Arrive 81 Bellaire 9:2a a. M. and COO =. M.
NTHEELING AND ELM GROVE X. X
On Sud AFTER Monday, November Is, 1856, Trains
on the Wheeling X Elm UrOye K. r., Will run ~
follows.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-07

SUNDAYs.
Leave the City al 500 4. m, and every hour to
900 y. m.
Leave Wheeling Park at 800 4 NJ, and every
hour 10 1000 ,. m.
The Church Train win leave oaCh terminus at
l2lO Il. n. G.. HlkSCH.
SUPERINTENDENT.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-07
HoRsFoRDs ACID PHOSPHATE


DR.. b. b. Grover, Rushford, n. Y, says:
81 have prescribed it for nervous irritable
ity, with marked results"
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LINED WITH TRUCKS,

and the policemen on the gate found
plenty of work in preventing the truck
men from fighting TO get on the pier ont
ii their turn. Some of these men had
been on their trucks all night. At the
New Haven freight line dock the same
block OF freight was to he seen. The
Baltimore and Ohio is receiving freight
Tor Washington and Delaware generally.
On the Ward line pier the same difficulty
to move freight WAS apparent, Pier : OF
the Erie freight line was also deserted. On
the North river the blockade was much
worse than in the east side.
The announcement by most of the COM
panieS that they would he in a position to
receive freight, caused a big rush, hut
when some of the truckmcn, having
waited all day yesterday and then I'M
hitched their horses and returned home,
reported that there WAS no sign OF their be-
lng able to discharge, the merchants saw
how useless it was to attempt to ship
freight in large quantities. One driver IN
'front.' OF MOrgan'S dock said he loaded up
1t Thurber's yesterday ut 9 O'Clock. His
truck had been in line ever since that
time, and ut 9 o'clock this morning there
Mere fifteen men ahead of him. THIS Is
only one of many instances of a similar
nature.
At Pier =, the Lehigh Valley Railroad
opened two doors and hung up a board
stating local freight only received Pier
;. ofthe Alexander line, was closed. 1t was
stated that one of the Pennsylvania piers
freight was being dumped into the ears IN
discriminatory, To M stored IN transit. The
New jersey Central Piers l3 and III were
rlosed ut 9 o'clock, aS the freight offered
,ould not be handled. The jam of trucks
extended from Pier | TO Pier Ii, and it was
almost impossible for the horse ears to get
along.
AT THE BALTIMORE AND ONO PIER,
foot of Dover street, Fast river, fair prog
! rr>s Is being made in handling freight.
| There has been some trouble, hut mo Sl0-
lencc to-day in HOboken because 4 mum
| Der of coal carts from New York have been
| rarting coal from yards at Grove and New
ark streets to customers in New York.
The coal is supplied by the Delaware,
| Iackawanna and Western Company, and
the strikers tried TO stop the drivers, hut
| the police guarded them and drove the
strikers of.
Acting Mayor BCckman to-day issued {
proclamation offering = reward OF 500 tOl
the apprehension and conviction OF the
perSCl or persons concerned in the dyna
mite explosion on the Old Dominion
steamer Guvandotte on the 3lSt ult.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money Bal Per Cent. Governments Dull
and Steady-Stocks Higher-Flour Dull
and Unchanced-Whcat Lower.
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CREAM BALM
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COLD in HEAD
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s. Q. Z. &. Depart Arrive
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women because of the high bonnets,
clese-titting bodices and the heels upon
evening shoes. Who is the little woman
who Is responsible for theseS All the
great beauties and actresses are tall The
cause of fashion may be found, but it
is very often concealed, SO we'll that even
Monsieur Lecocq would have trouble in
discovering it.
OF beautiful belongings 1t Is said that
Mrs. G. p. Huntington has the finest sa-
bles, Mrs. August Belmont the richest
sapphires, Mrs. Willie Vanderbilt the
most magnificent diamonds, Mrs. Mar
shall o. Roberts the rarest pearls. Mrs.
5. L. M, Barlow possesses a rare collec-
ton of laces, and Mrs. William Astor the
finest single sapphire, which is worn as a
pendant on a diamond necklace Mrs.
Bradley Martin shines in magnificent
rubies, and Mrs. William Dinsmore is
noted for the uniqueness of her orna-
ments. When one of the Astors was
married some years ago a present given
her-her bridal slippers--was covered
with real pearls, and put in satin case
deliberately painted with 'lady slippers
Mrs. Hicks-Lord's diamond buttons are
probably unsurpassed, but buttons will
never be as popular as other designs, be-
cause they are troublesome to arrange !;
worn by this handsome woman on black
velvet, with fiounces of rose point, they
are thoroughly effective and make her
look like picture of Van Dyck's.
After all, the law of fashion is not
stringent, for it permits much to the in
lividual, and the woman who is not wise
enough to understand this will never de-
serve to have herself spoken of as "well-
dressed" The art consists in the know
ing how to make the gown suited to the
1rawing-room, the afternoon teas the
Inner, the luncheon or, because of the
simplicity required, pour tout dller."
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of vanity without which no woman can
be entirely attractive, and that self-sur-
render which goes far to persuade man
that he is a demigod because his wife
believes 1t and tells him so.
The color seems to be getting more
rare in these days. This is the blue that
goes with golden hair. Blue eyes must
be mated with their appropriate COM
plexion. That color, so facinating in a
blonde, is no less delightful in brunette;
but-say the seientists-its meaning is
now altered. There comes hi now,
coupled with the affectionate qualities,
certain tendency to deceive, stimulated
by an ambition for conquest and leading
to the qualification of admiration. There
remain the light blue and the violet. The
first is the eye of the Northern races-of
the Swedes and the Danes, of the Scotch
sometimes also. 1t suggests constancy
and truth, steadfastness, simplicity,
courage, purpose. 1t is a mans eye,
with its moderation and self-respect-
honest in the glance it gives you, if at
the same time rather cold and pElegmatic.
And then there is the violet eye, which is
a woman's eye, and of which the main
characteristics are affection and purity,
chivalric belief and limited or deficient
intellectually.
And now come the brown eyes. They
are the eyes of the South and of the East
of the sunny races; the most passion
ate and least original, and to them
belong the lustrous black hair and the
olive complexion of skin. With them
we get jealousy and cruelty, somewhat
of 1.-THE feline nature in women and in
men, courage coupled with superstition,
a wild recklessness of life, and disre-
gard for the sufferings of others. But
the type has altered through infinite
notifications; and there are brown eyes
in plenty that have nothing in common
with the passionate qualities of the
South. This may be generally predicted,
that when the brown is light the DISPOSE
ton is affectionate but hayward, and as
that brown darkens you pass from affec-
tion to passion
Last come the hazel eyes, which are
more frequent in novels than in life. No
two people seem quite agreed as TO the
definition of the color, and the reference
to hazel nut, which starts by being
green, and passes through yellow to
brown, confusingly illustrates every
theory. A blue-gray radiated from within
with brown and bronze streaks seems
to come nearest the general view. Adopt
ing this as the color, it will be seen that
they are chiefly found among the mixed
races, and especially the English and the
Americans They always suggest a
good deal of strength of character, gen.
orally sense of mischief and thickness
Puck probably had hazel eyes-and
sometimes that humorous cruelty which
belongs to the Anglo-Saxon race. Hazel
eyed people are rarely shallow, and you
must be prepared for surprises when
you have to deal with them.-&. James
Gazette.
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Dead Mems Bones for Love l1raurhts.

A curious instance of how deeply old
superstitions are still rooted in remote
parts of the country is case which has
just been brought before the magistrates
of Marquet, in the department of Loiret,
in France. A short time ago the grave
digger of Fontenay-sur-Loing said to
some workingmen with whom he was
talking at a Ferrieres factory: perhaps
you think that dead mems bones are of
no use; but you are mistaken. | have
sold some to two women from Ferrieres."
The police, hearing of this occurrence,
made inquiries, and the following facts
were revealed: Two women from Fer
rieres went to Fontenay-sur-Loing and
asked the gravedigger for some human
bones. At first he refused, but was soon
persuaded to yield by an ample bride
The women, who passed in the district
for sorceresses, returned home, hiding
the bones for short time and then burn
ing them and carefully gathering up the
cinders, their purpose being to prepare
love draught for young and pretty
country lass, who had ordered it to re-
conquer the heart of lover who had
turned her off .-PdN Mall Gazette.
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A CUBAN HOTEL.
Furniture and Arrangements That Are
Curious to Strangers.

Furniture and Arrangements That Are
Curious to Strangers.
A Cuban hotel is curiosity to strang-
ers. The diningrooms here face the
street, and they are as open as though no
wall separated them from it. The office
counter and the writing table or writing
room are at the end of the dining-room,
and eating, writing and business go
on inside of the same walls. This room,
however, is large square one, and there
is no confusion. The dining tables are
of all sizes, so that one can dine alone or
party of dozen or more can eat'their
table d'hote together. As to decoration,
the brightest of colors are used in the
interior painting of the hotel, and in
some room frescoes prevail. Red and
sky blue are seen everywhere, and the
floors of the chambers and halls are
paved in marble and red tile. / write
this letter in my bedroom. There is no
plaster ON the ceilings Of these hotels,
and the great rafters above me are as
the bluest sky. The windows are almost
as large as the side of the room, and they
are kept open day and night. The bed Is
of iron, and the mattress was never made
of feathers. A frame work extends on
every Cuban bed, and we sleep in cages
of coarse lace like that used for cheap
curtains at home. Most of the Cuban
beds have no mattresses. The sheets are
stretched on wire springs, and General
Brice told me he had great trouble be-
cause the sheet, which was not bigger
than napkin, would work out from
under him, and leave his bare legs upon
the naked wire. The rest of the wood
work of this room is as blue as the raft
ers and every room seems to have its
own bright color.-Hdedna Letter.
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HOMEMADE CANNON.
No Need for the Government to Lool
Abroad for Heavy Guns.

No Need for the Government to Look
Abroad for Heavy Gums.
The experiments recently conducted at
Sandy Hook with an eight-inch rifle cannon
constructed at the West Point foundry will go
far to upset the theories of those who imagine
that we must go abroad for ordnance. This
cannon was made of English and domestic
steel, and stood the tests to which it was sub
mitted without showing any defect what
ever. With shot weighing $50 pounds, and
= charge of American brown powder, the
initial velocity of the projectile was 1,875 feet,
and the energy developed at the distance OF
1000 yards was equivalent to Z 900 foot-tons.
The result of the trials with this cannon
has been carefully collated with the records
of German, English and French cannon of
the same calibre, and establishes thefact that
this gun is superior to any of the same class
of guns of foreign manufacture. There
never should have been any serious doubt
about the ability of the United States to
manufacture firearms great or small, equal
in accuracy and execution to those made
anywhere. 1t would be very singular If the
universal Yankee nation, world renowned
for its inventive genius and famous for man.
ufactures of all kinds, should not be able,
under proper stimulus, to make anything,
no matter what, equal if not superior tosim-
liar manufactures elsewhere.
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Wilbur Voted Aye.

Everybody in Dakota knows Wilbur
F. Steele. He was member of the Leg
islature from Steele county. There is an
incident in Steele's legislative career that
goes very far to show his characteristic
regard for his wife. He has one fault
however !. He takes no stock in woman
suffrage Except when he is obliged to.
IN the occasion in question the woman
suffrage bill was before the House.
Major Pickley was championing the
cause of the fair sex in eloquent words
when call was made for vote, and the
clerk proceeded to call the roll When
Steele's name was reached he rose with
the dignity of Demosthenes and COM
menced:
"Mr. Speaker, / am sorry that Icannot
support this bill, but"
At that moment well-dressed lady
was seen to bend over the gallery rail.
In loud voice she exclaimed:
"W-i-l-b-u-rp
He glanced upward. 1t was enough.
He turned and said
''Mr Speaker, vote aye"
The lady was Steele's wife, Minneapolis
Journal.
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PROHIBITION.

The Voice, New York Prohibition or
gan, claims that the Prohibition amendment
n Michigan was defeated by fraud.
The following States vote on Prohibit
zion amendments at the dates named Texas
Thursday. August 4, 1887; Tennessee: Thurs
day, September 20, 1887; Oregon: Tuesday, No
vember 8. 1887; West Virginia: Tuesday, No
vember 8, 1888.
Senator Mcdowell, the Prohibition
leader, thinks that Tennessee will be the
pivotal State as regards the future OF Pro
nibition in that part of the country. With It
ION, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
nd Arkansas would, he says, rapidly follow.
Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, has
iigned the Wood local option bill providing
for elections by counties upon the call of one
enth of the voters. Cities of over $500 popu
tation arc excluded, but may have local option
elections upon the call of one-tenth of their
own voters. After having voted. city or
county cannot have another election m less
Than four years. This Substantially the same
IS the Georgia law.
One of thecuriosities of Cayuga county,
N. Y, is a hotel built directly upon the
dividing line between two townships. 1t hai
been the custom for many years for the man
ager to shift his bar-room from one end of the
house to the other, just according to the way
the town went on the excise question. and in
hat way he has managed to obtain license.
,ither in one town or the other most of the
time.
The amended new Maine law prevents
druggists from handling spirits only when
compounded with some drug, and any druggist
who secures United States license shall be
deemed guilty of selling IN the meaning of the
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reoDvraoated. 1887

>. old writer on the fashions tells OF
z appalling incident of muff made of
leopard skin being offered to young
woman. Her disgust at 1t, and the little
thought displayed in supposing that a
woman of fashion would be seen with
such monstrosity, is dilated upon and
then the writer closes by ''what would a
fashionable belle say to a furrier who to-
day would offer her muf of leopard
skin? Yet such have been worn" In
deed, they have, and, SIS an evidence of
the change of opinion in regard to the
beautiful, the fact that the most expen-
sive gowns of last season were trimmed
with leopard skin and that muffs and
capes of it were deemed smart stares one
in the face.
Fashion and caprice are cited as synony.
nous. This is not true. Sentiment has
much to do with the fashions and the
stage encourages this mingling of the
real and ideal. When the trouble came
to the French princes all loyal Paris
wore black, heliotrope and gray; an effort
was made to make theses shades popular
among Americans. A few adopted them
Mrs. Langtry charmed the eye in her
gray toilets, green came in favor
that only heliotrope combined with, and,
behold this season sees the present
adoption of the colors called insipid two
years ago!
Americans as rule want to see things
tried and it is only the leaders who are
willing to adopt the entirely new at bail
or reception. The hustle, crinoline, or
whatever may be its name or size at the
time, has always been most popular and
its use most extreme among French and
English women. Why? Because the
Englishwoman, broad-shouldered and
full-busted, is generally narrow about the
hips, and her French sister shares, in
modified degree, this unshapeliness. The
modiste suggests padding and then real
ICES that it will not do, 80 the broad
hustle or the wide hoopskirt gives the
desired size. The American does not
suffer in this way and is by far the most
shapely of the three, so when the hustle
is in vogue the skilled modiste arranges
for her somewhat long improver that,
upholding the drapery, does not take
away from the smallness of the waist,
nor make the hips look like those of q
peasant.
Who invents the fashionable costume?
Who brings it to this country, and
where is its fate decided9
Many of the styles are brought out
here and many are French ones modified.
The French costume, like the French
bonnet, nearly always requires touch of
the American milliner before it is abso-
lutely becoming. A French bonnet ap-
pears-it is without ties-that is very
well suited to the short neck of the
Partisan, but here slender throats are
the rule rather than the exception, and so,
on the chapeau is put lace or velvet
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strictions of the interstate commerce
law II suppose" said gloomy and
somewhat shabby Thespian to me ct the
Morton House bar yesterday, 1.-THE trainers
of that law meant TO do right; but by the
ternalthey' veraised the deuce with about
10000 Woodworking and always poorly
paid actors My manager closed eight
weeks earlier than he had intended, and
he didn't pay our last weeks wages, be-
cause when the railroad fares to New
York were settled at interstate rates there
wasn't cent left The railroad
got everything. and we got left. Where's
the justice of that law2n
Icouldn't tell him, and l dare say you
can't OF course the commissioners
must relieve the theatrical profession g.
this burden. 1t will never be able 20
carry it, FERAMoRz.
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SAVED FROM THE TIGER.
His Friend Runs Bayonet in the Brute
just in Time.

His Friend Runs Bayonet in the Brute
just in Time.
Only few months ago, in India, in a
certain planting district there was no.
torious man eater. Two gentlemen, A
and B, residing together on an estate, had
lost, besides other employees two chowke-
bars, or native watchmen, within few
days, and the unfortunate men had been
actually carried off out of the veranda of
the bungalow. A and B, therefore, de-
termined to clothe themselves like ma
tives, and sit during the night, armed, in
the veranda, in the hope they might be
able to get a shot at the man eater, who,
they thought, might probably return to
the spot which had already provided him
with two victims.
They proceeded to carry out this In
tention, and sat up till about two or
three o'clock A. NJ, but nothing APP
peared. A then said that he should not
stay up any longer, as he did not believe
the animal would come; but b announced
his intention of waiting half an hour
longer by himself. There were large
windows opening down to the floor of
the veranda, and through one of these A
retired, and after entering his room, had
just closed the window, and was gazing
out for an instant, when he saw dark
mass land in the veranda, right on to his
friend, then heard sounds of scuffie
and cry for help. Selling his rifle, to
which sword bayonet was attached,
and fiinging up the window, he rushed
out, in time to see b walking down the
steps that lead up to the veranda along
side of the tiger, with his hand in the
latter's mouth.
Awas afraid to fire lest he should hit
his friend, so, running after him, he,with
admirable presence of mind, went up to
the tiger, and, plunging his bayonet into
the animals body, at the same instant
fired. There were roar and scutfie,
and B took advantage of the moment to
release his hand, and the tiger, after
tumbling, died. BIS hand was terribly
mauled. - London Court Journal